Failing Health Care Co-ops Will Cost Taxpayers

Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Programs (COOPs) were really a political compromise between Members of Congress who wanted a public plan option and those who didn’t. Once the Affordable Care Act passed, COOPs had outlived their usefulness. However, they are now failing and will cost taxpayers plenty. Senior Fellow Devon Herrick testified before a congressional committee.

About the Authors

Stephen Moore is a member of the editorial board and senior economics writer at the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Moore is the founder and former president of the Club for Growth and served as a senior economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, as a budget expert for the Heritage Foundation and as a senior economics fellow at the Cato Institute, where he published dozens of studies on federal and state tax and budget policy. He was a consultant to the National Economic Commission in 1987 and research director for President Reagan’s Commission on Privatization. Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds a Master of Arts degree in economics from George Mason University.

Tyler Grimm is a research assistant with the Wall Street Journal. He studies government and international politics at George Mason University and has also attended Oxford University. Grimm was a Koch Fellow at the Reason Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he researched issues related to privatization and tax policy.